Today is a very special day! First, it’s Sunday, the LORD’s
day! We celebrate the event of the greatest impossibility in human history! The
resurrection of Jesus Christ! On Friday, He had been crucified and was buried.
But on the first day of the week, He arose from the grave victorious over sin,
death, hell and the grave, never to die again. He ever lives to save us and
make intercession for us!!!!! His resurrection is the greatest proof that God
can do the impossible!
It is also a special day for Edith and me. Today will be my
last Sunday to preach and to be the interim pastor of Friendly Community
Baptist Church in Burgaw North Carolina. We have had the privilege to be a part
of this wonderful fellowship of believers for the past two years! It has been a
marvelous and wonderful experience. Souls have been saved, people have been
baptized, families have joined the church, and we have experienced a genuine
revival of God’s Holy Spirit taking control of the church! Our new pastor, Adam
Kord, received an 100% vote of affirmation. He and his wife Julie will be here
next Sunday to take the leadership and shepherd this flock of God’s people! It
has been an awesome two years!!!!
Today is also very special for my family as we have the privilege
of dedicating our preemie grandson, Luke, to the Lord. As soon as he was born
at one and a half pounds in Roanoke Memorial Hospital two years ago this month,
and not expected to live, this fellowship at Friendly Community took him in
their hearts, (along with many, many others around the nation and world), and
prayed fervently for him and his survival! He is a miracle baby! God did the
impossible and today we will celebrate this, as his parents, Chris and
Kimberly, present Luke to the Lord and we dedicate his life to the glory of
God! He is a “special needs child” and we believe that God has a special
purpose and plan for his life! Our God is Awesome!!!!!
In the last verses of Joshua 5, Joshua had an encounter
with the Captain of his faith outside the walls of Jericho as he was doing
reconnaissance. He was facing an impossible fortress he was tasked to conquer,
and he desperately needed help! That is when God shows up! Joshua falls to his
face and worships, takes off his shoes, and listens to God’s instructions as to
how to go about conquering this great city.
In the first verses of Joshua 6, we have the specifics of
those instructions. I can’t imagine what is going through Joshua’s mind as he
hears them. They absolutely make no human sense! March around the walls once a
day for six days, with the priest leading with trumpets and the ark, and with
all the men of war and the rest of the people following them. And march in
complete silence. No talking, no trumpet blowing. Then on the seventh day, do
the same thing six times but on the seventh time, blow the trumpets and all the
people shout with a great shout! God then promised that the wall of the city
would fall flat!
Sounds crazy! But that was God’s instructions and Joshua
simply obeyed by faith and shared them with the people! We must first
understand that the Bible is not a book to be explained but a book to be
obeyed! God's plan for the conquest of Jericho was seemingly foolish, but it
worked. God's wisdom is far above ours (Isa. 55:8-9) and He delights in using
people and plans that seem foolish to the world (1 Cor. 1:26-29). Whether it's
Joshua with trumpets, Gideon with torches and pitchers (Judg. 7), or David with
his sling (1 Sam. 17), God delights in using weakness and seeming foolishness
to defeat His enemies and glorify His name.
When the angel told Mary that as a virgin she would
conceive and give birth to the Christ child, and that her elderly cousin
Elizabeth was also going to give birth to a son, he reminded her that “With God
nothing is impossible” (Luke 1:37).
Today, you can trust the Lord to do the impossible in your
life!
God bless!
